Matt Taibbi has no such inhibitions left.

https://www.racket.news/p/state-tv-slobbers-over-state-of-the
“Could state media in the GDR, Soviet Union, Maoist China, or Pinochet’s Chile have reviewed a leader’s speech as breathlessly as Joe Biden’s State of the Union? Listen before you answer”

It’s for paid subscribers, but I decided Matt earned my money with the Twitter Files.

After Joe Biden’s State of the Union address Thursday night, ABC tossed back to set. Chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl was already out of breath, ready to make sexy time, as his colleague Borat Sagdiev would say.

“This is probably the largest, if not one of the largest audiences President Biden will have before the election come November,” Karl began. No s***. Because they can’t risk letting him campaign before then. “Now our chief White House correspondent, Mary Bruce… I’m curious what you’re hearing from your sources. Did he do what they wanted them to do?”

This is what Mary Bruce said:

“I can tell you the White House is very happy right now. I bet there are a lot of high fives going on right now…. The White House feels that he nailed this, that he put his critics on their heels at every turn… I think the overarching message coming out of this speech was really, game on… And the tone of it was just so classic Biden! It wasn’t polished, lofty rhetoric. It was folksy, it was personal. He was funny at times… He repeatedly put Republicans on notice. He sparred with them in the room in a way I don’t think we’ve ever seen before…”

The White House feels he nailed this? Real talk, if the job is to instantly relay the White House’s opinion on the White House’s speech, why do we need ABC? Why not cut right to a levitating Jake Sullivan head declaring, “PEOPLE OF EARTH! YOU ARE ENTHRALLED!”
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“I’ve been a part of, I don’t know, maybe nine or ten of these…” explained Biden spokesperson Psaki. “They almost always start on the economy because that’s what you’re trying to speak to your audience about, people who are sitting at home, and it’s rare for it to start on something else.”

Translation: We usually start with the economy because that’s what voters care about. But I’m about to praise him for doing the opposite. Psaki went on. “This was… democracy, intertwined with kind of the power and speaking against authoritarian dictators like Putin. That’s a choice and that’s a choice the president makes. It’s not like they just give him a speech and he says, ‘Sounds great. I’ll deliver this.’ He made the choice to bookend this on democracy.”

Really? Psaki knew that? She was reporting that Biden wasn’t handed a speech that he then read because he does whatever he’s told? Or is that just what the White House and therefore MSNBC would say? Psaki’s words came just as the network cut to a shot of Biden turning to the side to reveal a seeming crayon-drawn, color-coded chart of the House chamber that resembled Mr. Potato Head: …
[AF: did that really happen? Sadly, it sounds believable.]
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This wasn’t State TV? Not ORT or “Voice of Zaire” or Deutscher Fernsehfunk? Really, if it had been, what would be different? If anything, predecessors would have been more restrained, not sinking to: “Rachel, this was classic Mobutu: folksy, funny at times.” “Exactly, Nicolle. Every bit the nation’s helmsman, but still the son of a cook…”

Even Marcos or Suharto might have been creeped out to watch where MSNBC went politically. “I thought it surpassed my expectations and it transcended my expectations,” Chris Hayes exclaimed.
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“Even out in the public,” their opinions of the President are “over the top.” Do you sense the theme? One commentator after another not only lined up to lavish maximalist plaudits on Dear Leader (“Just astonishing,” said Lawrence O’Donnell; “What an incredible moment,” added Mika Brzezinski; “He really ate his Wheaties tonight,” swooned Lindsey Davis on ABC), but like Psaki and Hayes, repeatedly congratulated him for going against public opinion.

“He started with Ukraine and I thought, wait, wait, wait, wait. He’s running for president. What’s he doing?” asked Maya Davis on The Nightcap with Stephanie Ruhle. “Then it became very elegantly clear that he was starting with this theme of democracy in the context of his sub theme, which was history…”

“Because he’s also underscoring: I may be older but I’m wiser,” agreed Ruhle.

Like Psaki, both hosts were wondering, “What’s he doing?” because polls keep showing the public strongly disagrees with administration policy and performance on Ukraine (and Gaza, for that matter). Along with immigration and the economy, these are big reasons Biden’s approval rating sits at Trump-after-J6 levels. As even the Washington Post was forced to admit, the excitement about a CNN insta-poll showing 65 percent of viewers having a positive view of the speech was misplaced. Presidents always get great scores after the hype of a State of the Union address, and Biden’s 65 percent number was the lowest recorded by CNN in at least 25 years, sitting a full five points below the previous last-place finisher, 2017 Donald Trump.

Typically this is when we see politicians try to turn things around by announcing new measures to counter public sentiment. In this case, apart from a vague promise to make billionaires pay more taxes, the bulk of Biden’s speech was a massive double-down on plans to keep spending on unpopular military commitments abroad.

For this, for saying “I’m wiser” and choosing to bypass themes “people who are sitting at home” might care about, the entire Beltway pundit corps lined up to give the PornTube tongue-bath that continues through this weekend.
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Not even Fox in the runup to the Iraq invasion was this craven. At least then, there was emphasis on trying (through lies about WMDs and other manipulations) to convince the public to stand behind Bush administration policy. The message now is that the public is wrong and must be ignored, for the sake of democracy. Whether the president is right or wrong, politically smart or not, we’re to understand his words will in any case inspire these hilariously ostentatious ass-kissing ceremonies. The message: you’ll eat what you’re fed and love it, just like we do. At least that part of these broadcasts is real. Whatever all this tastes like to you, to them it’s really delicious. Really, really delicious. They mean it. God, do they mean it!

The WaPo story about the CNN poll was in one of Miguel’s links.
https://twitter.com/mirandadevine/status/1766507989207290013

But I did “misremember” Adam’s language as “a virtuous and religious people” rather than “a moral and religious” one. While confirming the correctness of your version I came across this older article that you and others here might find favorable [although I have not yet read it myself, I hope to do so eventually]:
https://www.heritage.org/political-process/report/did-america-have-christian-founding Mark David Hall, Did America Have a Christian Founding? [June 7, 2011; 29 min read]
On the other hand, virtue still has a place, as James Madison, in The Federalist Papers, No. 47, did say “sufficient virtue among men for self-government”…, cited in https://constitutionallaw.regent.edu/preserving-a-constitution-designed-for-a-moral-and-religious-people/ Mark D. Martin, PRESERVING A CONSTITUTION DESIGNED FOR A MORAL AND RELIGIOUS PEOPLE; August 3, 2020.

TJ on March 9, 2024 at 5:53 am said:
“There already was no place for compromise in US politics. Now, the divide becomes a rapid, self-amplifying cleavage fault. In other words, grimmer prospects supplant the grim” [of a possible violent or insurrectional CW 2.0]. Clearly a real SOTU would identify this horrid prospect; indicate that we are not strong while we are facing a force of separation and disunity almost as great as in 1859/60; and seek or propose some means for correcting this, if partly by compromise and partly by force of new law and partly by force of arms.

Barry Meislin on March 9, 2024 at 1:09 pm said:
“Report: Five killed by aid packages airdropped by US…”
But the Israel National News report says “Gaza reports say that at least five people were killed and others injured … after aid packages airdropped by the US hit them directly…”. Thus it is still not clear if this information was verified by “responsible” Israeli’s or just accepting a statement from the Gazan “authorities”. In any case, any parent or responsible adult would have been watching their children during this drop and keeping them away from a potential landing point, but still near enough to get to it quickly afterwards. I suppose winds could shift the load by 10 to 50 feet from its initially indicated landing point? [Any experts here?] That is quite a hazardous shift – so “someone” should have been alerting the recipients to be careful to that extent. But if you are starving I suppose you don’t pay much attention to such advice.

https://twitter.com/osint613/status/1766532452430844178

+ Bonus:
WEF/WTF, Canada Edition: Diversity north of the border is also quite rich…
“Anti-Israel Protesters Shout ‘Go Back To Europe’ Outside Synagogue North Of Toronto”—
https://blazingcatfur.ca/2024/03/09/anti-israel-protesters-shout-go-back-to-europe-outside-synagogue-north-of-toronto/

Much like with Richard Levine, don’t give this jive, about Rachel, who only has a skill to kill and confuse, the former he did to the state of Pennsylvania’s elderly, the second he does every other day, Cpl Klinger dressed n dragged to try to get out of the Army, today well selection of proper hose seems to prerequisite for advancement

those in East Asia, and Eurasia are amused at what goes on in Oceania, we’re not in on the punchline

of course Orange Man, was quite equanimous but crazy Grandpa simpson is given too much credit, for not keeling over like a redwood,

To be sure, “Biden” has NO NEED to be honest… (And AI has let out the—supercharged—fox amongst the chickens…)
Here’s Dr. Robert Malone’s take on the recent Tucker Carlson Benz interview…and it’s damning:
“When Military Rule Supplants Democracy”—
https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/when-military-rule-supplants-democracy
Opening graf:

If you wish to understand how democracy ended in the United States and the European Union, please watch this interview with Tucker Carlson and Mike Benz. It is full of the most stunning revelations that I have heard in a very long time….

Key grafs:

…Five points to consider that you might overlook;
First– the Aspen Institute planning which is described herein reminds me of the Event 201 planning for COVID.
Second– reading the comments to Tucker’s original post on “X” with this interview, I am struck by the parallels between the efforts to delegitimize me and the new efforts to delegitimize Mike Benz. People should be aware that this type of delegitimization tactic is a common response by those behind the propaganda to anyone who reveals their tactics and strategies. The core of this tactic is to cast doubt about whether the person in question is unreliable or a sort of double agent (controlled opposition).
Third– Mike Benz mostly focuses on the censorship aspect of all of this, and does not really dive deeply into the active propaganda promotion (PsyWar) aspect.
Fourth– Mike speaks of the influence mapping and natural language processing tools being deployed, but does not describe the “Behavior Matrix” tool kit involving extraction and mapping of emotion. If you want to dive in a bit further into this, I covered this latter part October 2022 in a substack essay titled “Twitter is a weapon, not a business”.
Fifth– what Mike Benz is describing is functionally a silent coup by the US Military and the Deep State. And yes, Barack Obama’s fingerprints are all over this.

Yet another “conspiracy theory” is now being validated….

Old news?
(Alt-neu news….)
I see/hear/feel the WEF/WTF’s long and gnarly hand….

Guess “he” hit this one outta the park…
Be PROUD, guys….

honestly did they sign the bud light marketing team,